| After NYCHA
Extortion Take Down Patrick
Butler Pled to Taking $24000
Wants Probation
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 5 – For days Inner City
Press had heard from its
sources there would be a
"takedown" on February 6, each
SDNY Magistrate Judge would
handle seven to 10 defendants.
Arrests happen at
6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City
Press tweeted it, first to X
subscribers with the spoiler
alert: the expectation was
that each of the current or
former NYCHA employees would
be released on bond the same
day.
And then hours
later at 9:39 am the
prosecutors announced it.
Media rushed around reporting
it. Inner City Press had
it first, and after discretely
waiting, published it first.
Then this thread of
presentments, here.
On May 7, amid
guilty pleas by others,
Patrick Butler was indicted
and charged with $54,000 in
NYCHA bribes for contracts
worth $406,000.
On October 28
before Magistrate Judge
Barbara C. Moses Butler pled
guilty - to $24,000 in bribes,
a guideline of 18 to 24 months
with sentencing set for March
19, 2025.
On March 5
defense counsel wrote in
asking for a "probationary
sentence."
The case is USA
v. Butler, 1:24-cr-290
(Kaplan)
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